Robin Becker wrote: > Whilst doing some portability testing with reportlab I noticed a strange > speedup for our unittest suite with python2.5 > > host win32 xp3 unittest time=42.2 seconds > vmware RHEL x64 unittest time=30.9 seconds > > so it looks like the vmware emulated system is much faster. Is it the > x64 working faster at its design sizes or perhaps the compiler or could > it be the vmware system caching all writes etc etc?
I follow David's guess that Linux does better IO than Windows (not knowing anything about the benchmark, of course) Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
